Stylistic devices

experience visiting Ground Zero the place where the twin towers stood prior to the tragedy of 9/11. She uses rhetorical devices throughout her essay to make the piece feel incredibly intimate and emotional to the reader. She specifically uses imagery, tone, simile, and metaphor to explain her experience to Ground Zero in a deeper and meaningful way to her readers. Berne uses rhetorical devices in her essay Ground Zero to let her readers feel the same emotions and imagine the same things she saw on her visit

unexpected event in a not so ordinary town. In the story, the townspeople gather once a year to decide who must be the important sacrifice that helps save the town’s crops. Whomever is the chosen one, will be killed by stones. Jackson uses creative stylistic devices such as irony, foreshadowing, and point of view to add suspense throughout the story. Shirley Jackson uses irony to grasp one’s attention. While reading the story, “The Lottery,” readers assume what may happen in the next scene, but a twist

Final Analysis Writers of works of literature have long employed various stylistic devices to execute their literary objectives. Some of these stylistic devices include – but are not limited to – the use of settings, theme, and characters. Furthermore, such works can be analyzed, understood and interpreted through the lens of theories such as Feminism, Post-colonialism, and Existentialism. The use of various stylistic devices in service of the exploration of various literary theories serves to make

Runner’, (2003) by Khaled Hosseini, describes the life of Amir, whose experience of growing up parallels the developments in his home country: Afghanistan. These similarities are reflected in the bildungsroman through a variety of symbols and stylistic devices. Specifically, the use of invective language – Amir calling his half-brother a ‘Hazaara boy’ (Hosseini, 2003, p. 275) and the Taliban glorifying their crimes as ‘ethnic cleansing’ (Hosseini, 2003, p. 261) – reveals a long-standing history racism

In the story A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner vividly illustrates the short story of a woman who has been isolated from the community after her father’s death. In order to portray Miss Emily’s melancholy through the story, Faulkner used stylistic devices that characterize gothic fiction such as constant decay, eternal seclusion, and strong emotions. William Faulkner begins by providing a clear, picturesque description of the scenery and the atmosphere the story is set in. The short story’s decaying

By exploring and employing different stylistic devices, most specifically his use of hyperbolic language and rhetorical imagery, the poet attempts to convince the youth that he must defeat time through ‘the fame, repute, harmony, and reproduced image of an heir.’ However, following his failed attempts

Another tendency noted in the British newspapers is the frequent use of stylistic devices such as oxymoron, antithesis or paradoxes, in order to describe the opening ceremony and Britain. Most of them were retrieved from The Guardian, but they were present in all the newspapers: The latter sentence suggests that the opening ceremony, and by extension the country itself, tends to be described as a contradictory entity. This tendency is confirmed above all in The Guardian and in The Times. As far as

great number of various stylistic devices and ways to express feelings and emotions. However, authors had never stopped and continued their experiments with the language of their works and plot ("Fabula and Sjuzhet" para. 1). Thus, speaking about the peculiarities of the contexture of various fiction works or books, it is possible to analyze the short story A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner in order to understand the way in which the author could use various stylistic devices and combine them with

In my analysis, I will first apply Jakobson’s (1960) methodology, stylistics approach and Carter’s (1997) criteria of literariness to the two texts and then contrast them with illustrations in terms of interpretative schemata. My intention in doing so is to highlight some of the strengths and weaknesses of these approaches

The aim of the current analysis is to find twenty stylistic devices in the “If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.” (FCF 4). 1. Simile – “as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away” . Through this simile Gatsby
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